KDE Plasma Widget for external monitor brightness adjustment

• ddcci-plasmoid

  8 355 7.8 Python

  KDE Plasma widget to adjust the brightness of multiple external monitors

So you can get away with this:

    git clone https://github.com/davidhi7/ddcci-plasmoid

• BetterDisplay

  200 15,868 8.7

  Unlock your displays on your Mac! Flexible HiDPI scaling, XDR/HDR extra brightness, virtual screens, DDC control, extra dimming, PIP/streaming, EDID override and lots more!

Yes, BetterDisplay got DDC support on HDMI M1 soon after its dev learned that I added it in Lunar: https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay/issues/1361

I’m friends with Istvan (the BetterDisplay dev) from the time he was a Lunar user, and we usually share implementation details for non-Pro features.

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• MonitorControl

  191 26,106 6.4 Swift

  🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.

  

Also use something like this on Mac: https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl

• Lunar

  192 4,323 8.9 Swift

  Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors

I develop Lunar (https://lunar.fyi/) for controlling monitors on Mac and stumbled upon this gem for Linux which I wanted to share with you.

I regularly get asked to recommend something similar to Lunar for Linux and Windows and while there's TwinkleTray for Windows, I didn't have a good recommendation for Linux. Glad this finally exists!

A lot of people also use MonitorControl for Mac and might be curious what's the difference between it and Lunar. I have a comparison table here for those people: https://lunar.fyi/lunar-vs-monitorcontrol

• Monitorian

  38 2,951 8.9 C#

  A Windows desktop tool to adjust the brightness of multiple monitors with ease

> there's TwinkleTray for Windows

There is also Monitorian for Windows:

https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian

• xfce4-ddc-plugin

  1 0 4.1 C

  Xfce panel plugin for controlling monitor settings.

Neat! I'm working on something very similar for Xfce, but invoking ddcutil natively: https://github.com/apsun/xfce4-ddc-plugin (very much WIP, currently only supports hotkeys and a single monitor)

I've found that shelling out to the ddcutil CLI directly tends to be "lossy" - as in, if invoked very quickly (i.e. via keyboard shortcuts), it will tend to race with itself and fail half the time. So far the best solution I've found is to run a daemon to queue and batch together multiple operations, which significantly improved reliability.

• Clight

  14 688 5.3 C

  A C daemon that turns your webcam into a light sensor. It will adjust screen backlight based on ambient brightness.

There is also Clight (https://github.com/FedeDP/Clight) if you want automatic backlight adjusting given ambient brightness. It supports external monitors through ddcutil C library and has many more features to offer.

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